4 Rays of Hope for 'Precision' Cancer Therapies

December 16, 2014 5:34 PM

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Trends in cancer research promise to change treatment prospects, perhaps not for those who are seriously ill today, but surely for many of those who will follow.

In 1971, the nation declared a war on cancer, implying that cancer was one disease for which a single cure could be found if we only did enough research. Since then, and despite billions of dollars invested in cancer research, nearly 600,000 people will still die in 2014 from cancers that out-ran th...